http://andrewjaswa.com I build crappy websites every day! Thu, 14 May 2009 03:36:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I loathe conditional comments and browser targeted code. But there comes a time when you have to support an old and out dated browser (I'm looking in the direction of IE6 at the moment). So what do you do? You have to make it look the same and function the ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2009/05/markup-conditionals/ I consider myself to be left handed. Though I think I'm more mixed handed. But alas mixed handedness gets cut out of the picture most of the time since the focus tends to be on the dominate writing hand. I like being left handed, it means I might have a ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2009/02/on-being-left-handed/ I was pondering the other day as to what fonts could be used in mobile Safari. I came across an article about this very subject on Daring Fireball. There is even a chart of exactly what fonts are installed on the iphone. It's a great resource, but it seems a ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2009/02/iphone-safe-fonts/ The second 13things article is now published. Zach Young gives a great explanation as to the uses and mis-uses of an often neglected html element. You should go check it out. You can also follow @13things on twitter to get updates about new articles and new developments on the ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2009/02/februarys-article-on-13things/ We've all seen tag clouds. I even considered putting one on my site, but I realized that tag clouds don't really look nice. The other day I discovered Wordle. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2009/02/wordle/ Yup. I'm going. And for $20 who wouldn't? That's a steal. For 12 speakers in one day. Oh hell yes. And I think I get a t-shirt out of it. http://andrewjaswa.com/2009/01/wordcamp-denver/ Well where do I start? I guess it started back in March of 2008 when I attended An Event Apart New Orleans. Jason Santa Maria gave an excellent talk about web design or rather a talk about how current web design all looks the same in the form of blogs ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2009/01/13things/ You. Who are you? Do you know how you are perceived by others? Do I know you? Do other people know you? A year or so ago I was reading something about making good impressions with resumes. While it was aimed at fresh college graduates it did have some good ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2009/01/you-yourself/ In the past I've made resolution and never kept them. But then who really does keep them? They always seem to get forgotten or something happens and they get pushed aside. Well I don't like them. I prefer goals. Goals have plans. I like plans. So here are a ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2009/01/goals-for-2009/ So I have a twitter addiction. That's right I like tweeting. I recently surpassed my 2000th tweet and my 100th follower (that wasn't a spam bot). In fueling this addiction I've created 2 twitter bots: Acropoll and SandCTweet. Last night I put the finishing touches on a plug in for ... http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/12/feeding-the-addiction/